Slow Stories

Tara and Tom tried out for the school play and got the leading parts. But there's a love scene and the director suggests it will be more believable if they get to know each other so they can "get into the scene". Did Tom misunderstand? He's in the scene, but he gets into HER instead. / (Reviews)

A Story in the Eden Universe
Humans have been looking for years for another planet on which life has arisen. When they finally find one, the relationship with its denizens gets off to a rough start. As the relationship between the two races develops, each finds it must re-examine what it means to be an intelligent species.

This story is not erotic and there is minimal sex, if you can call it that. I hope it is romantic, in its own way. It is more a study where the feeling and symptoms are taken from actual case studies about this problem and are all put into one story. Since I have been there and done that, I knew what I was looking for. So there is no one person named Kara -- she is a compilation of hundreds of case studies I read about on sites for this type of problem as background.